Word: hopelessness
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...things aren't hopeless for Harvard. "They are very big and very skilled, but not very mobile," Kingston said. "The key for us is to tackle low and be quick...
...this continuing autobiography Unreliable Memoirs. He cheerfully admits to rearranging details and changing names (an American writer becomes Alexander Lobrau, a construction company is called Piranesi Brothers). And no character sketch is more heightened in its absurdity than his portrait of his younger self, about whom everything apparently was hopeless: his head for alcohol, his "Medusa touch" in everyday affairs, even his clothes. One of the best running jokes concerns a Singapore-made suit whose shoulders engulfed his head whenever he gestured with his arms, causing mystifying blackouts...
...Navy game, on the other hand, seemed hopeless from the start. Although the Crimson lost this season's previous meeting with the Cadets by a respectable 12-6 score, both squads sensed that Harvard wouldn't escape so easily this time around...
...pattern currently accepted for campaign forums, all of the candidates in the Eighth race, or at least all of the Democratic candidates, appear together. Hopeless hopefuls and serious challengers alike get equal dribbles of time in which to make prepared statements or answer a few predictable questions. Candidates are rarely caught off guard, and hence the most preposterous balloons of hot air are rarely pricked...
...past. Wright Morris once wrote of Norman Rockwell that his "special triumph is in the conviction his countrymen share that the mythical world he evokes actually exists . . . He understands the hunger, and he supplies the nourishment. The hunger is for the Good Old Days --the black-eyed tomboy, the hopeless, lovable pup, the freckle-faced young swain . . . sensations which we no longer have but still seem to want; dreams of innocence before it went corrupt." Reagan also understands the hunger. He does not delve cynically into the layers of American memory. He is not as mythically cute as Rockwell...